Recent content by Climbing Wookie

Date: 5/30/08 Trail Conditions: Some water and mud on the trail to Bradley Pond but very mild for Santanoni Range standards (I am sure that has changed with Saturday's rain). Several 50 ft sections of rotten snow encountered along Santanoni Brook herdpath to Time Square, but nothing more than...

Other Good Winter Slides? I was thinking of going up any of Slides 1-4 in the Ski Bowl of Whiteface. I am curious how conservative is management's decision to keep the slides close due to potential avalanche conditions. Your right calling management is probably the best thing to do. I would...

Can anyone educated me on if climbers are allowed on the slides in Winter? I read somewhere that when the slides are open for sking that upward travel is not allowed. Currently, the slides remain closed due to snowpack instability dating back to the late fall early snow and rain turning to...

VFTT Sticker Spotting Anybody know who has a VFTT sticker on an SUV with NY Plates "GIG EM"? We exchanged college plesantries leaving the Adirondacks a few weeks back. I am a University of Texas grad, so I had fun returning their "GIG EM" thumbs up with some Hook 'EM Horns!

1 Short G, Unfortunately, we left Dix out. It was sad to see it just 0.4 miles away in the fading twilight. But leaving Dix out was our "nod to the Gods" for leting us off of the herdpath before it was pitch black. We will go back, maybe climb the Great Slide on East Dix some day, but I...

Re: Solstice Hike Neil, I think the Great Range loop (none of this in via the Loj, out via the Garden traverse stuff) is my best "bang for the 30 mile buck" dayhike. More ambitious than that becomes a multi-day hike for me. But I am always game for a crazy idea. My original plan for the...

Too Peak-Bagging Happy...naw never not me harryk, Normally I would agree with you, but the weather was so nice and we had the entire range to ourselves...didn't see anybody all day, that it got me to thinking..."gee wouldn't be nice to sit here on the summit for a while, take some pictures...

On Saturday, March 26, Miss Wookie, Wookie dog, and I departed our home on the planet Endoor in hopes of tackling the five peaks of the Dix Range. We arrived at the Elk Lake winter trail head around 6:15 AM. We barebooted our way down Elk Lake road for 1.7 miles to the actual Dix Range red...

Thanks for the Data Thanks everyone for the data. Wish us luck...did I mention that I will be breaking in new plastic boots on at least part of this trip :rolleyes: Pinpin Jr. - you have got to be one of the most prolific hikers on this site, you are everywhere it seems. Hopefully we will...

The plan for this weekend is to attempt the Seward Range and Seymour. Below is the general plan. Any words of wisdom, suggestions, or volunteers to help break trail :D would be most appriciated by the wookie and Mrs. Wookie! Saturday 3/19 Corey's Winter TH to Blueberry or Ward Brook Leanto...

Warren, Thanks for the info. I could just see me driving to the trailhead access road only to be turned away. My hiking partner (aka girlfriend) would not be all to pleased at my lack of adequate preparation. But from what you are saying it sounds like I should be able to access all of the...

Last weekend in the Catskills I had to park about a quarter mile from the Black Head / Black Dome trailhead b/c my rear wheel drive hooptie refuses to drive on an iced road. Which got me to thinking...how far down each of the secondary access roads in the Adirondacks (i.e. Corey's, Tahawus to...